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The 5th district’s local council on Tuesday announced that the use of Segways, electric bicycles, electric rollers, hoverboards, beer bikes and rickshaws will be banned on sidewalks and pedestrian zones from the middle of June.

Vezess.hu compiled the list of the 20 most dangerous roads in Budapest. Accident statistics from 2011 were compared with statistics from 2016 (the most current data), and the results are not looking good.

Délmagyar.hu performed an experiment on road no. 47 in Hungary. They asked a citizen from Székkutas to dress in a fluorescent jacket and stand next to the road with a hair-dryer in his hand. Albert Kis ,who pretended to be a traffic controlling policeman experienced the strength of the hair-dryer and the mimicry. The journal reported the “fake speed camera test” worked well and most of the cars slowed down.

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